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...water is vanishing with cruel rapidity. One evening I was at a huge lake, the Sohung reservoir, in the country's breadbasket. To be accurate, I was at what was once a huge lake. It is 96% gone, simply evaporated into thin air. The man in charge appeared shaken as he explained that the sun will suck Sohung dry by the end of August...
...from Laramie, his brother is killed, his wagon burned, his mules slaughtered. He is lassoed and dragged through a campfire. His right hand is held down while a sadist shoots a bullet through it. His aw-shucks tentativeness turns to high-pitched sputterings. His thin frame is shaken with the outsize energies of hysteria...
...McVeigh, cold and silent as stone. At that moment in that room, it seemed inconceivable that the jury could do anything but sentence him to death--and that anything but simple vengeance would be the reason why. When the day's testimony was over, even Matsch looked shaken. "You're human, and I'm human too," he told the jury. "[But] we are not here to seek revenge against Timothy McVeigh...
...thing: she can forget next year's Miss Popularity title. Teachers have shunned her. Friends have dumped her. "I was surprised by how fast it happened," she says. A recall petition was started at school. And on a local radio show, the Williamses were called Yankees and carpetbaggers. Shaken but still on her feet, Alison went to a meeting where school-board members shifted and shrugged when she asked to speak, and one finally grumbled, "Make it quick." "When they did that to her," her father says, "I said, 'Alison, however far you want to take this, I'm behind...
Jones: I stand by my story that I was so shaken by these events that I filed suit a full two days before the statute of limitations ran out. Although I never lost my job and I received regular pay raises, I was unable to advance my career as quickly as I had assumed I could by meeting the Governor in his hotel suite, and was thus deprived of my constitutional rights...